US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 22 for "Optical zoom system and camera for a mobile device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,959, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical zoom system and camera for a mobile device" was invented by Ernst Hegels (Munich) and Volker Gabler (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical zoom camera and an optical zoom system for the optical zoom camera. The optical zoom system comprises at least three spatially separated lens groups, which are arranged on an optical axis. The optical zoom system does not include any further lens groups on the optical axis. A third lens group is immovable along the optical axis, a second lens group is movable along the optical axis to set a...